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Calacanis Backs Mobile Social Networking Service

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Jason Calacanis , the high profile founder of Santa Monica-based Mahalo , is one of the angel investors in a mobile social networking service, Gowalla , the company said today. Tags: jason calacanis angel investment venture capital social networking gowalla. Series B funding for the firm.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

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Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. provides online service to compile and compare plans and rates across multiple monthly services. PriceGrabber.com is an online comparison shopping service.

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Interview with Jason Kiesel and Kurt Daradics, FreedomSpeaks

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The bare bones of FreedomSpeaks is online advocacy as a service. The other feature that sets us apparent, is our integration with social media. savvy, we have every social networking credential there is, and we've integrated those sites into the API. Jason Kiesel: Yes. Kurt and I are pretty Web 2.0

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How to Save MySpace

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This could also be done by leveraging a partnership (or buyout) of a site like Mahalo. I’m not friends with most of the people that are connected to me on social networks. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is an amazing service that that enables the exchange of micro payments for any variety of activity. . Fuel Micro Jobs.